... Founda- Munthe’s Sculpture Collection in Gifts (Bergen 2012).
tion, Emily Rauh Pulitzer, as well as special exhibitions [stanley.abe@duke.edu]
such as ‘‘Urban Alchemy: Gordon Matta-Clark ‘‘Sty-
lus: A Project by Ann Hamilton ‘‘Dreamscapes and
now ‘‘Reﬂections of the Buddha For the...

... scheduled events.
art and architecture, and regardless of the extent to A deﬁning characteristic of the ‘‘Reﬂections of the
which the architecture provocatively invites us to view Buddha’’ exhibition was that it self-consciously forced
the objects in new ways, the building is the dominant a viewer with...

Figure 42. Śākyamuni Buddha, slightly west of center on north wall of Akaniṣṭha Shrine (3.18), first half of seventeenth century. Photograph: author. Figure 42. Śākyamuni Buddha, slightly west of center on north wall of Akaniṣṭha Shrine (3.18), first half of seventeenth century. Photograph
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... span of about 150 years. The narrative episode from the life of the Buddha Śākyamuni in which his mother presents him as a newborn to the deity of a tree-shrine is featured as a key example of this phenomenon. While the sculpted image depicts the spirit of a tree venerating the infant, the caption...

... benefits and even directed prayers for salvation. In addition, this essay shows that the architectural and spatial settings in which Enma was placed influenced the understanding of his varied functions, and ultimately enabled his refiguration as a salvific deity who had the power to grant birth in a Buddha...

Figure 50. Uncrowned Buddhas making the bodhyaṅgīmudrā (Vairocana? Left [3.10]) and dhyānamudrā (right [3.11]) with red Bodhisattva Samantabhadra between them and below depicted episodes from the Life of the Buddha, south side of west wall, first half of seventeenth century. Photograph
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Figure 15. Episode in Life Story series, depicting Dream of Queen Māyā, conception of Buddha, east end of south wall of Akaniṣṭha Shrine (3. b ), first half of seventeenth century. Photograph: author. Figure 15. Episode in Life Story series, depicting Dream of Queen Māyā, conception of BuddhaMore